Love these digs. As a very young girl in the 60’s (8 or 10ish) my 2 brothers and I would go to local home dump sites for just this type of finds. We’d bring our finds home and carefully wash them up. My parents were local antique dealers and would sell lots of our finds at the nearby flea market. A lot of money was made back then. My favorite personal finds were a very small carnival glass medicine bottle (sold for $180) and about 100 beautiful old straight razors. Absolute gold mine. For a while I harvested broken pieces too and cemented the pieces into flower patterns on glass vases & votives. Won art awards for that. I still have 1 small vase with forget me not flowers made of broken glass. All was good until someone told where our favorite spots were. Then I moved on to making copper & glass bead jewelry (found a small batch of glass beads, and copper wire , got me started on that) & macrame belts & things like that. Sold like hot cakes ! Still crafting with nature finds, and just about anything that speaks a new life to me.

@2degucitas

Жыл бұрын

Like being a kid again finding cool stuff and making things with it.

@joerudnik9290

Жыл бұрын

Very smart ideas!!

@73_de_CJHall

9 ай бұрын

Sorry about the Chatty Cathy giving away your sites

@Mrdruggedalien

14 күн бұрын

I think this is a made up story.

I bet the people who used that outhouse back in the day, never dreamed someone would come along 100 years later and dig it up to find what they threw down in it. Love your videos.

@Reddeltanine

Жыл бұрын

120 - Plus years not just 100 years.. 20 years makes a difference whether you Agree or disagree there is no question about that...

@vortex2598

Жыл бұрын

That's what I always think of when watching, and by extension, I think about the things I throw away as trash that will be dug up by someone more than a century from now. Interesting to think about

@frediahale-en1qp

Жыл бұрын

I was 9 years old before I seen real tolit . It was outside

@fubarlife7776

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they didn't care and neither should we!

@gordotortuga8748

Жыл бұрын

Eagerly digging in the old outhouse site!

I wish I had access to the yard that I grew up in Grand Rapids Michigan. My dad said our house was built over top of an old city dump & the house dates back to 1890. Dreaming of being archaeologist, I used to dig up old pieces of porcelain plates and stuff right in the backyard when I was 10-12 yrs old. That's almost 50 years ago today.

@ninaappelt9001

Жыл бұрын

Go ask if you can dig.

@2degucitas

Жыл бұрын

Hi there, fellow GR resident

@kyleeconrad

Жыл бұрын

All of these things would look amazing in my kitchen!

@garyredmon1731

Жыл бұрын

Hi Muskegon here

@carolhart8696

Жыл бұрын

😎 cool

its amazing to me that your pulling out 140 year old bottles in south Dakota USA which were made 5 miles away from me in Liverpool in England over 4000 miles away

Me and Father who own a land scaping company did just that I was digger got three feet down found a top to a street lamp which wasn't detached then I turn right started digging on a hunch found the top of a door with glass dug it out opened just enough my dad couldn't get in side a entire lady's dress shop everything still inside still smelt of smoke we just found the lost burnt City of Memphis yes really amazing!!!; )

We were at a family property many years back when I was about 14 (50 years ago) where my great great grandparents house once stood and my sisters were finding some cool cobolt glass bottles and other bottles in a depressed area that backed up to a hill. When I told them that it was most likely the remains of and old outhouse they immediately lost interest even though I told them that all of the "crap" was long gone. I took over and found a bunch of similar objects that you found such as remedy and alcohol related bottles. Thanks for the flashback!!

A couple of young guys dug up the old outhouse on our property. The found numerous bottles etc and also the head of a porcelain doll. We kept the head. It lay on the cabinet in the laundry room for several months. The house developed an odor that got worse each day. After checking everything we could think of, we took that head and pitched it. The smell left.

@tabntedkitchen1275

11 ай бұрын

😊

@jimjustice581

10 ай бұрын

Maybe it had bad breath?

@Jude74

10 ай бұрын

Well, it was sitting in the soil of a privy for a century I mean think about it. It was literally marinating in human leftovers. Ewww. Did you name it Dolly doody head?

@faragraf9380

10 ай бұрын

old broken things arent worth. They were not past times, they are not now.

If you excavated more carefully, you wouldn't break so many pieces. That large crock at about 15:40, I heard it crack as you yanked it from the ground, and you can see from the broken edges that they were fresh, never exposed to the elements - until you stumbled in. I enjoy seeing the things you find, but I hate seeing them mistreated. Be more careful!

@ggpitt1

11 ай бұрын

Agree.

@BrianCarnevaleB26

3 ай бұрын

as much as he does it, (digging) it is expected. What I like the best is I am learning about antiques from someone 25-30 years younger than myself, which in itself is amazing. Your vast knowledge of even the coin dot Fenton hand-blown stuff shocked me! My Aunt had a couple of pieces and I remember her telling me about them when I was a kid it was all under lockdown in this big cabinet. My Italian Aunt collected many things, that inspired me at a young age as o one less in my family collects stuff as I do and she mostly had glassware transferware & other rare porcelain pieces, & rare rugs as well I have two from her collection she left me when she does suddenly of a massive stroke. I was just so heartbroken in 1989

@BrianCarnevaleB26

3 ай бұрын

rem they were thrown in a dump. Mistreated?? you are a strange person.

@craigcorson3036

3 ай бұрын

@@BrianCarnevaleB26 At least I am able to write a coherent sentence.

@MeeMawCummins

3 күн бұрын

That’s exactly what I was thinking . Geez . Bull in a china shop .

I love when you find kids toys, porcelain dolls and figurines! Tells a little more of the story than the bottles and porcelain alone!

Watching your videos always reminds me of when I was a kid. In the early 80's we lived next to the old town dump (used from the 1890's to the 40's) we would dig bottles and other relics. I still have a few items from those digs.

Yeah, the Brown Crock broke when you pulled on it. Needed to be gently exposed on all sides down to the bottom before gently lifting it out. Check out the techniques archeologists use when unearthing old civilizations, better yet, join a volunteer group and soak up their methodology.

That cobalt bottle is killer, great dig. Enjoyed it very much.

This is an old trash pit. Many homes didn't have trash pickup back in those days, so they threw their trash and ashes from the wood stove in pits. Great bottles! Those with the graduated sides (measurements on the side) are worth a bit more. I'd clean them up and sell them, or display them. You prolly have more than $500 worth of bottles, at least. If you can preserve the labels, please do so. Great funds! If you don't want to bother selling them, you could sell them as a group, or perhaps consign them at an antique store. Look up the bottles! Some old bottles can be worth a lotta money... a couple hundred bucks. Great stuff! Thanks for sharing!

Its sooooo Amazing that some of the Labels have survived after over 100 Years in the Ground - wow ! This Pit was LOADED ! Love that Cow and Door Knobs ! Man - some Rare Bottles again - still cant get over all those Labels - I think You hit the Jackpot AGAIN ! Fantastic Video and many Cheers from Australia !!!!

@demsakawalkinglatetermabor7ion

Жыл бұрын

In this case, that cement cap or cover was added at some point to help preserve and limit moisture and leaching. Perhaps the sidewalk also added protection.

I always enjoy watching you dig up the past. So interesting seeing the different products and packaging used back then.

Dang if that’s an old outhouse the stuff he’s finding must have really been hard on the digestive track and really hurt coming out! Holy Smokes!

@Jamestown23_

4 ай бұрын

Yeah old bottles. Ouch!

This video reminds me of why I love your channel so much. For a while I watched some of your earlier videos remastered and I enjoyed them for the second time. But this is new and exciting and way too deep!! I really was concerned for you but loved every minute of this pit. Especially the paper labels. Be safe and keep having fun. ✌🏻🤟🏼

Hey Tom, I just signed on and like how you operate. I inherited my grandparent's 1879 boarding house in the Catskill Mountains of NY. We've restored most of the ground floor, but upstairs it's '1937' or so. Back in the day everything was discarded out by the barn and I've been finding stuff since I was a kid. For years there were even shells of autos and parts galore out there, but the rust has eaten most of the stuff. Lots of whole and broken glass items, the list is endless. Anything worth half a hoot is fair play to keep for me, and some not that good too. Thanx for the video!

I love hearing the song at the beginning of the video! It makes my heart soar to know another discovery is coming! Kind of like watching Wide World of Disney on Sunday evenings, back in the day! ❤️❤️❤️

I absolutely love your videos! If you ever get out to Southeast Iowa, the place is littered with old mining towns, one of the coolest of which is the tiny town of What Cheer. At one time, it was a boom town, with dozens of coal mines all within the area and What Cheer was pretty much an epicenter of settlement. It has an opera house that is as old as the town, plus dozens of old and prolific houses still standing. I've found an old mining camp while metal detecting and found no less than 75 mining scrip tokens in a two acre area. I also found a glass pit with 1870s Hero Atlas Mason jars, as well as a bean pot that I'm 80% assembling from pieces I find. Good luck and happy hunting!

Love the intact label(s) on these!! Wow!! And the cobalt blue and other unique finds in this pit. Great!!! Thank you!!!😊😊❤

We found all kinds of stuff in our yard. My grandfather loves to go on trash digs. He has hundreds of bottles about 300 I think. The oldest date on my house was 1882 when it was sold it’s in the first book of property tracks in our county.

In Columbus, Ohio back in the mid 1970s, a friend of mine bought a 1800s era house, in a neighborhood, and buried in his yard, were hundreds of Lithography stones, most likely used at the town's first newspaper publisher. I was an Art student at the time, and by coincidence, a print maker. at The Ohio State University, in Columbus. I recognized the "litho stones" which were usually mined in Bavaria, in Germany, and shipped over in tall masted sailing ships in the 1800s, to Eastern sea ports, where they slowly made their way westward to newly established cities. Each litho stone weighs 40 or more pounds, and is 4 to 6 inches thick. Bavarian Lime stone is very valuable. I think my friend gave and sold the stones to the OSU Art department. He had a hundred or more, and was more interested in removing them from his property, than keeping them around as artifacts. Schools that teach Print Making as an art form, always want to have a collection of stones, for their students, to use for producing new drawings on, and then making prints, from them. The fine, even grain, of stone's surface, can be carefully ground down, to create a blank, fresh surface, ready to receive new drawings. Those stones can be reused, 1000's of times. Old images can be carefully ground off.

Great finds from this pit, some I haven’t seen before! Love the enamel ware and beautiful blue Ball jar! 🥰

I USED TO DIG AT AN OLD DUMP SITE BY GRANT RD & I-10 FRONTAGE RD IN TUCSON,AZ IN THE 90'S. I USED TO FIND OLD BOTTLES, COINS, MARBLES, & OLD TOYS FROM THE 30'S & 40'S. VERY INTERESTING STUFF TO FIND. THE CITY MADE A FRONTAGE ROAD OVER IT & I COULDN'T DIG THERE ANYMORE

Cistern digs are best done using a fall-arrest gear. As I do amid karst. Sometimes what feels safe can fall without warning into natural or man-made voids. My first such fall happened in 1964 .

@Calamity_Jack

Жыл бұрын

At the risk of sounding like a "safety sally", it might also be a good idea to take measures against potential cave-ins. Trench diggers get killed more frequently from that than you'd expect.

@NotSoCrazyNinja

Жыл бұрын

At least it was apparent that had someone there with them. Not the best preparation, but better than nothing.

wow ,so much fun watching you find these artifacts ! thanks for researching and adding the info about these items makes for the most interesting viewing , great job !

Nice dig! I noticed a lot of bottles had partial labels on them that I could make out a few letters or words on. For example the beer at 25:59 has two yellow colored words peeking through the dirt (first one looks like it ends in "R", second in "D" maybe fluid?). The medicine bottle at 40:18 looked like it had an intact blue label. Overall there were so many labeled bottles it's hard to believe they have been buried for over 100 years!

You knew I was waiting for another dig! Love your videos Tom! Keep up the great finds!

This man's knowledge of bottle history is mind blowing.

I appreciate your knowledge on all the finds! Great explanation of the history

Love this channel ! Thanks for the historical information as you uncover each find. It mnakes it all that more interesting.

I love your videos! I could watch you guys dig all day, waiting for the next one!❤️

I collect ink bottles and get so excited every time you find one! I can't go digging, so I have to rely on other methods in finding them. 😊

After the great Seattle fire. The streets were filled in to raise the ground level to what used to be the second floor of the buildings. People were asked to bring any stable fill they could use to make the fill.. Fast forward to 2008 my brother worked in city construction where they dug up many old hand blown glass bottles and other interesting objects.

Wow! This privy was full! Thanks for the video, I will being waiting for part 2!

Love that cobalt blue bottle , and it looks like you got 10 years of dump on that one , but I bet you got two older pits yet to find , lets hope you find them , Its cool the hot ashes did not break the cobalt bottle , but the bottles with manganese or iron broke , one thing cobalt is used for in metal is it creates heat resistance, who knows maybe it made the blue bottle survive the hot ash clinker

WOW....are these "TREASURE" from an OLD Outhouse? HOW do you know where to even LOOK!! This is my second video I've watched of you and I LOVE it too!!

I love old abandoned houses and old bottles! This would just be a dream to find a old hole and just get down and dirty! Love these videos! ❤

I love it when you find labels on glass that's so old! Very kewl Tom 😎

I live on a farm that has a couple of civil war era bottle cisterns still intact. Be interesting to see what has been thrown in those over the years.

@MikeD56034

Жыл бұрын

contact any local civil war group or battlefield preservation group and see if they would be interested in a dig. there was one done in south dakota ( i think) almost 2 years ago that had lots of shoes, shirt fragments, tin ware, cutlery, buckles, belt remnants and much more found. it was really cool.

@Mdeaccosta

Жыл бұрын

@Michael Davie-Leonard There is a battlefield site about a mile away as the crow flies. Sterling Price fled Federal troops through these parts. My little son used to bring me Minie balls by the dozens when we plowed the garden, and once, a spent rim fire cartridge as big as your finger.

I love that so many of the bottles still have labels. I hope they clean up good.

What a deep pit! So many treasures.

Tom sure seems to know alot about these old bottles! I'm quite impressed with his tenacity, as well as his knowledge. Wondering: were these bottles and etc. tossed or given to the present owners of the property?

I almost spit my coffee out when he said he realized he's in the outhouse pit 😂 ..shoulders deep and realize it

Great content! I would be concerned about exiting that pit in a cave in situation. I have been in a trench cave in before and it's not fun.

Thinking the cement cap that you had to bust through had a lot to do with preserving the labels. Great dig!!☺

Always waiting for your new videos, I saw all of your old videos.

Another great video ! Superb content! 😁👍👍

Always enjoy your videos. Lots of interesting stuff that were thrown in outhouses. They made good places for throwing away once used bottles and household paraphernalia. Keep on digging!

Really enjoy your channel! I hope you are having a great summer adventure up North. I’ll send your channel over to my friends!! Have a safe holiday weekend 🌼

I like the way he just drops the bottles after he describes them. Must have flunked the archeological studies program. 😅

The Cudahy jar appears to have a match striker on the bottom. That would be a marketing ploy...hold your matches after the cold cream was gone.

I love little bottles ‼️

Love to watch you dig and find the things you find.

Shame that so many of the things you found down in the hole was damaged by the heat from the ashes and broke. Those are some beautiful bottles that you found that was still in one piece. Would love to get a hold of a beautiful bottle like that blue one.

What an awesome pit. So many pretty bottles. Love the cobalt blue. Cant wait till the next one Tom. I bet your tired at the end of the day.

It's pretty amazing what people find in the trash heaps of centuries past. And it's often in better shape that what wasn't tossed in a hole...

Wow that was another deep hole, with some awesome finds. Thank you for sharing 👍🙏❤️

You have found so much history in one dig !! amazing !

The ground is so dry I suppose that is how some of the paper labels are still somewhat intact. Great finds. I am always fascinated with your digs.

What finds..!! Never know whats below us...enjoyed. thanks for sharing...keep on digging...🥰

Great work!! Keep digging for that history.

At 10:19 you pull out half of a small dish. I believe that's "tea leaf ironstone". My mother used to collect it.

I get excite watching you dig you never know what your bring out it's so cool

So glad I found your channel, I love looking for items from the past.

All this broken glass and ash, and that distinctive crunchy noise as you dig reminds me of what's left after a house burns down.

I am often reminding my neighbors that their houses were built before our city offered weekly rubbish removal. So most trash generated, was left to home owners to dispose of. There was often a city dump, but most people just buried everything in the ground on their own land.

What a way to start the weekend! 🎉 Thank you!

Do you ever check to see if any of your milk glass containers glow? I watched another digger in Alabama dig a cold cream container (milk glass) it flowed like crazy. Also the clear glass bottles that have a yellowish hue to it sometimes glows.❤

@Scriptorsilentum

Жыл бұрын

why would they glow?

@kristidavis9945

Жыл бұрын

@@Scriptorsilentum the old marbles a lot of time had either uranium or magnesium which makes them glow under UV lights. The uranium glows green and the magnesium glows a purple pink color. Their beautiful, their usually white and another color swirled, some all white with a possible slight tinge of yellow to it, some just all white those tend to glow green. Where the reds, oranges, blues, pinks and purples glow purples. Just like the old glass that’s red and yellow fade I call amberina glass glows purple. As does uranium dish’s, trinkets, etc. I hope this helped.

@DarkVoidIII

Жыл бұрын

@@kristidavis9945 Exposure to nuclear radiation, even in small doses, is never a good thing. They never knew what these colors meant nor the dangers associated with them. These days uranium and to a lesser extent, magnesium, are only safe to have if treated with the proper care and respect for the metals they actually are.

@martyzielinski1442

11 ай бұрын

@@Scriptorsilentum-only when lit by a UV light source.

@digitalphoenix72

Ай бұрын

I think you might be referencing uranium glass? I only recently found out what it was. The clear glass glows like a weird green radioactive (it really is radioactive) green color, and the ceramic glazings were a really unnatural orange clolor. Its really cool seeing people put a Geiger counter next to these old glass objects and they set off the detectors.

You're very lucky to have these places to go and dig. :)

I am fascinated with what you have done, keep the videos coming!!

Another awesome video, I never get tired watching you guys.

Anxious for part 2. Great pit.

Great video! You keep making em and I’ll keep watching 😂

LOVE the facts/history you display!

Just found you today, I loved hearing that clink when you would find something.

Found your channel again. This is so much fun.😃

Love your videos. I like that you write the information in them.

First time I've seen one of your videos and I enjoyed it immensely, even though I was so worried about the pit collapsing in on you!

I could watch this for hours!! Great finds!!

Just stumbled across this video. I was absolutely fascinated. I had no idea that outside loos were used to discard unwanted items. I would love to find treasure like this!

Who would've thought that digging up dunny- holes could be so intriguing 😮

@Richard-qx6el

Жыл бұрын

Don't know about you, but I wouldn't be digging in a shithouse hole. Soon as he finishes, hope he gets his shots.

Wow, I came upon you by accident. I love watching someone who is knowledgeable as well.

Watching is exciting and soothing at the same time. That's a compliment! 😊

Im glad a lot of the items were still intact!

Classic stuff, and you are a legendary digger.

Don’t smile your face will crack. Your taking this to a new level. Your a good looking guy smile.

Awesome finds! Thanx for sharing!

Thank you for the new episode!

One of the most interesting channels today. Subscribed!

This was very interesting to me. I am going to watch part 2 now. 👍🏼

Wow, what a great pit! You are one tired puppy! I look forward to the finish!

Wow , another great dig man ! Absolutely killer glass . Amazing how much is there and how many other pits are waiting in line for you !

You just never know what you gonna find! Love the blue glass! UK

I wonder if the tall narrow smallish pickle bottles held capers or olives?

@Janmification

Жыл бұрын

Well, part of the mystery explained. The small, narrow one held vanilla, in some form. Odd it would have a wider neck, if a liquid essence.

Love that you have this hobby☺️

I love those ink bottles. Very stylish and better when they have a unique pattern however fancy they may be 👍🌟

I like the Fahrney bottles there always nice to find. good dig.

Thank you for this video. It was fantastic.